4/7/2023 0 Comments Flickr versus picasathe tool was payware and limited you to 5 uploads. I had to use a third party tool to get the pics out of iPhoto and up to Flickr. However after investing half an hour in Flickr, I found myself frustrated. On the positive side, I found there was more features oriented to sharing pics through the online community. As you move from one tool to another, the navigation can completely change leaving the user lost. I had Picasa set up in minutes, and had even found the downloads of the mac tools for Picasa, but yahoo had more options, more links and terminology that just conflicted with what seemed natural to me. There is no consistency with the navigation or links and Yahoo!’s interface design is something I have griped about in the past. Probably because I setup my Picasa Web Album first, which was pretty straight forward, but I just struggled with the Yahoo! style interface which at best baffles. So I went and signed up and got terribly confused. So you could say I have an open mind to photo sharing. What is Flickr? Where have you been? Flickr is definitely the incumbent in the whole web photo sharing space, and if you were not aware it is now owned by Yahoo! Flickr is reported to be by far is the most popular, (however see graph below) but does it make it better or does that give it baggage? Due to one reason and another, but generally due to living under a rock for the last 12 months while I slogged my guts out working, I haven’t had the chance to play and explore the world of Flickr. Although there is no Picasa photo management software for the mac as such, there is a export plugin for iPhoto and a Picasa Web Uploader app which makes it easy for you to click and drag your pics up to your Picasa Web Albums account. I was very pleased to easily find the mac Picasa tools, and to find they worked really well. ![]() You can add video too which is the first step on the way towards the obvious merge of Picasa and YouTube. You can upload, tag and group your pics with ease. In true Google style, Picasa Web Albums is lightweight and simple. They have just release some mac tools, I was intrigued so I took a look. ![]() However Google now has Picasa Web Albums, which to all extents is Google’s version of Flickr. However I am on a mac now (hallelujah) and have iPhoto, which is much much better. It was great, and it still is, well I assume Google haven’t made it worse. I could yank my pics from my digital camera and find all sorts of hidden jpgs around my hard drive and consolidated them all. I was on a PC at that stage (okay, so I am a reformed PC user) and it was a brilliant program to sort your pics, tweak them, tag them, mix and match them. What is Picasa? I first stumbled across Picasa yonks ago on my search for a nice tool to organise pics.
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